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Sounds like propaganda to me. I'm German and my impression is that almost everyone is happy with the current model where you have a legally guaranteed right of
by fxtentacle 7y ago
Sounds like propaganda to me.
I'm German and my impression is that almost everyone is happy with the current model where you have a legally guaranteed right of holding CEOs accountable.
Everyone, except the American hedge funds trying to squeeze out more profits by increasing working hours, that is.
So to me, this article reads like "let's make Germany more like America in that the rich rule the poor".
And I find it rather surprising that they went with "Deutschland AG" because treating Germany like a country is usually only done by a rather weird tiny subset of citizens who refuse to adhere to laws and instead revel in conspiracy theories about foreign overloads secretly deciding what everyone has to do.
But most weirdly I find that I haven't heard this set of laws being discussed critically in German at all, but that instead an English article with odd word choice should be the first to criticise it.
- hef19898 7y agoYeah, the Deutschland AG where all companies were in one way or the other intervened with each other with Deutsche Bank in the middle is long gone. At least since the 90s.
- Doctor_Fegg 7y ago“UK plc” is common parlance here. I’m guessing the (British) Economist is awkwardly trying to use the same idiom.
- germanier 7y ago"Deutschland AG" was commonly used in political discussion up until the early 2000s, it even made it into Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland_AG https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland_AG and other encyclopedias. It has nothing to do with the Reichsbürger movement
- fxtentacle 7y agoWow, I didn't know :) That said, I haven't encountered the terminology elsewhere, so I was surprised to read it in this article.
- neonate 7y agoIs it basically the equivalent of the phrase "Corporate America"?